Judge Gives Green Light to Navy Veteran Suing CNN Over Allegedly Defamatory Segment on Afghan Rescues During 2021 Military Withdrawal
Zachary Young, who served in the Navy before establishing his own security consulting business, is suing the network for portraying him as an ‘illegal profiteer who exploited desperate Afghans’ during a 2021 segment on CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper.’
An American Navy veteran behind a high-stakes defamation lawsuit with CNN was handed a win on Tuesday after a judge ruled that he “did not act illegally or criminally” by helping Afghans flee during the Biden administration’s military withdrawal.
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